: About Me

A teacher for years, a writer for life.

My passion is ...

...my children.

I know too much about ...

...grammar.

My parents always told me ...

...we'll see.

My childhood ambition ...

...to please my parents.

My favorite memory ...

...fishing on the Quabbin with my dad.

Why I write ...

...I enjoy the challenge.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

...Atonement/The Office/Usually U2.

My first job ...

Answering the telephone/doorbell ay my aunt's convent.

My best moment ...

...holding my children for the first time.

My inspiration ...

...big surprise, my three-year-old "knight boy" and six-year-old princess.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Pregnancy

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Delivery The dribble of the shower no longer a comfort- as if it ever was. How can he sleep when I'm suffering like this? Dim light of the energy efficient bulb intermittently interrupted by moths as I wait on the bottom step of the deck. Crickets' wings grate- on each other and on me. How can he not be ready to go? Like the contractions, shadows grow while they creep up from behind then pass and shrink down to nothing- the consequences of fleeting affairs with tall and dark yet light emitting figures. Pounding pressure of moving air the only relief I can find from the rap song he tuned in...

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